Sign-up Sheets <= 1.0.13 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2021-06-21 00:00

Ajay Sandipan Thorbole

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 1.0.14

Affected PluginSign-up Sheets

Affected Version< 1.0.14

CVSS4.8Medium

CVECVE-2021-24440

View all Sign-up Sheets vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Overview

The Sign-up Sheets WordPress plugin before 1.0.14 did not sanitise or escape some of its fields when creating a new sheet, allowing high privilege users to add JavaScript in them, leading to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue. The payloads will be triggered when viewing the 'All Sheets' page in the admin dashboard

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 1.0.14, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-24440 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/f371feb6-93ae-4759-ab44-d58106093290

CVSS Vector

4.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredHigh
User InteractionRequired
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

This record contains material that is subject to copyright

CVE Usage: MITRE hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE®). Any copy you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you reproduce MITRE's copyright designation and this license in any such copy.

https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse

Defiant hereby grants you a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute this software vulnerability information. Any copy of the software vulnerability information you make for such purposes is authorized provided that you include a hyperlink to this vulnerability record and reproduce Defiant's copyright designation and this license in any such copy.

https://www.wordfence.com/wordfence-intelligence-terms-and-conditions/